Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat... - Quote Conversation A bit about Hermann Goering ... Hermann Wilhelm Goering (January 12, 1893 October 15, 1946) was an early member of the Nazi party, founder of the Gestapo, and one of the main leaders of Nazi Germany. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death, but he avoided execution by committing suicide in his cell, a few hours before the sentence was to be carried out. These people bookmarked this quote: Hermann Göring - Wikiquote Hermann Göring Jump to: navigation , search I don't have to worry about Justice ; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more. The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger . It works the same way in any country.

Reichsmarschall Hermann Wilhelm Göring [also rendered as Goering] ( 12 January 1893 – 15 October 1946 ) was a German politician, military leader, and leading member of the Nazi party. He was founder of the Gestapo , and Head of the Luftwaffe . Contents Quotes[ edit ] We will go down in history either as the world 's greatest statesmen or its worst villains . My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice ; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more. Speech in Frankfurt (3 March 1933), as quoted in Gestapo : Instrument of Tyranny (1956) by Edward Crankshaw, p. 48 Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes , I will protect you. Instruction to the Prussian police (1933); as quoted in The House that Hitler Built (1937) by Stephen Henry Roberts. p. 63 Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat.

Radio broadcast (1936), as quoted in The New Language of Politics: An Anecdotal Dictionary of Catchwords, Slogans, and Political Usage (1968) by William L. Safire, p. 178 Variants: Guns will make us strong, butter will only make us fat. We have no butter... but I ask you, would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains . Statement (1937); quoted in Great Powers and Outlaw States : Unequal Sovereigns in the International Legal Order (2004) by Gerry J. Simpson, p. 291 The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out! Speech in Vienna after the Austrian Anschluss (1938); when asked at the Nuremberg trials whether he meant what he said in this speech he replied "Yes, approximately." As reported from testimony in the Imperial War Museum, Folio 645, Box 156, , (20 October 1945), pp.

5-6 Now you see. You are even turning the Fuehrer against me. Ah, the Jews, the Jews, they'll be the death of me yet! Exclamation made by Göring in November 1938, soon after Kristallnacht. He returned from a day of dealing with the aftermath of the vandalism and looting to find his wife Emmy asking him to help Jewish friends of hers yet again, and the following day, received a note from Hitler, indicating this assistance must stop. As quoted in The Reich Marshal: A Biography of Hermann Goering (1974) by Leonard Mosley, p. 229. Ah, the Jews, the Jews, they'll be the death of me yet! Excellency, please sign. I hate to say it, but my job is not the easiest one. Prague, your capital- I should be terribly sorry if I were compelled to destroy this beautiful city. But I would have to do it, to make the English and French understand that my air force can do all it claims to do. Because they still don't want to believe this is so, and I should like an opportunity of giving them proof.

Said by Goering to the President of Czechoslovakia Emile Hácha on March 15, 1939, when Hácha, tired and under heavy pressure from Hitler to sign a document effectively handing his country over to Germany, nonetheless tried to resist signing. Hácha eventually gave up, and the combined pressure that Hitler and Goering had put on him caused Hácha to have a heart attack at 4:00 that morning. As quoted in On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began (1969) by Leonard Mosley, p. 167. No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr . If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You may call me Meyer. Addressing the Luftwaffe (September 1939) as quoted in August 1939: The Last Days of Peace (1979) by Nicholas Fleming, p. 171; "Meyer" (or "Meier") is a common name in Germany.

This statement would come back to haunt him as Allied bombers devastated Germany; many ordinary Germans, especially in Berlin, took to calling him "Meier", and air raid sirens "Meier's Trumpets". It is said that he once himself introduced himself as "Meier" when taking refuge in an air-raid shelter in Berlin. Supplementing the task assigned to you by the decree of January 24, 1939, to solve the Jewish problem by means of emigration and evacuation in the best possible way according to present conditions, I hereby charge you to carry out preparations as regards organizational, financial, and material matters for a total solution (Gesamtlösung) of the Jewish question in all the territories of Europe under German occupation. Where the competency of other central organizations touches on this matter, these organizations are to collaborate. I charge you further to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution (Endlösung) of the Jewish question. Letter sent to Reinhard Heydrich, 31 July 1941 The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire !

Statement at a luncheon on 20 April 1942, as recounted by General Franz Halder, about the Reichstag Fire , which the Nazis had blamed on "Communist instigators" in securing many of their dictatorial powers. In a way that might indicate Göring was simply joking, Halder testified: "At a luncheon on the birthday of Hitler in 1942 the conversation turned to the topic of the Reichstag building and its artistic value. I heard with my own ears when Göring interrupted the conversation and shouted: 'The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!' With that he slapped his thigh with the flat of his hand." Göring later testified: "I had nothing to do with it. I deny this absolutely. I can tell you in all honesty, that the Reichstag fire proved very inconvenient to us. After the fire I had to use the Kroll Opera House as the new Reichstag and the opera seemed to me much more important than the Reichstag. I must repeat that no pretext was needed for taking measures against the Communists.

I already had a number of perfectly good reasons in the forms of murders, etc." ...and suddenly there appears this misbegotten monster of welded-together engines one cannot get at! Why has this silly engine suddenly turned up, which is so idiotically welded together? They told me then, there would be two engines connected behind each other, and suddenly there appears this misbegotten monster of welded-together engines one cannot get at! Comment by Göring to a report submitted to him by Oberst Edgar Petersen , the Kommandeur der Erprobungsstellen (commander of German military aircraft test facilties in the Third Reich) on 13 August 1942, regarding the usage and deficient installation design for the trouble-prone, complex Daimler-Benz DB 606 "power system" powerplants for the He 177 A, Nazi Germany's only operational heavy bomber, which was suffering from an unending series of engine fires . As quoted in Heinkel He 177-277-274 (1998) by Manfred Griehl and Joachim Dressel, p.

52 The people were merely to acknowledge the authority of the Führer , or, let us say, to declare themselves in agreement with the Führer. If they gave the Führer their confidence then it was their concern to exercise the other functions. Thus, not the individual persons were to be selected according to the will of the people, but solely the leadership itself. Statement (18 March 1946) Cross Examination of Hermann Goering "Eighty-Fourth Day, Monday, 3/18/1946, Part 16" in Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal Vol. IX. Proceedings: 3/8/1946-3/23/1946 (1947) I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand ... I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions! Göring's closing statement to the Nuremberg tribunal (31 August 1946); as quoted in Witness to Nuremberg (2006) by Richard Sonnenfeldt, p. 70 The German people trusted the Führer.

Given his authoritarian direction of the state, they had no inﬂuence on events. Ignorant of the crimes of which we know today, the people have fought with loyalty, self-sacrifice, and courage, and they have suffered too in this life-and-death struggle into which they were arbitrarily thrust. The German people are free from blame. Göring's closing statement to the Nuremberg tribunal (31 August 1946) The German people trusted the Führer. Given his authoritarian direction of the state, they had no inﬂuence on events. Ignorant of the crimes of which we know today, the people have fought with loyalty, self-sacrifice, and courage, and they have suffered too in this life-and-death struggle into which they were arbitrarily thrust. The German people are free from blame. Nuremberg Diary (1947)[ edit ] These statements were recorded in Gustave Gilbert 's transcriptions of conversations with many of the Nazi leaders during the War Crimes Trials at Nuremberg , and later published in Gilbert's Nuremberg Diary(1947).

After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico , and we were stripped down to nothing , territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime . It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on. Do you think I give that much of a damn about my lousy life ? Naturally, the common people don't want war ; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America , nor for that matter in Germany . That is understood... Der Sieger wird immer der Richter und der Besiegte stets der Angeklagte sein. The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused. p. 4 (1995 edition); also quoted in Nuremberg: A Personal Record of the Trial of the Major Nazi War Criminals in 1945—46 (1978) by A. Neave, p. 74; original German, as quoted in Der Nürnberger Prozess (1958) by Joe J. Heydecker and Johannes Leeb, p. 103 After the United States gobbled up California and half of Mexico, and we were stripped down to nothing, territorial expansion suddenly becomes a crime.

It's been going on for centuries, and it will still go on. At lunch during the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal (11 December 1945); Nuremberg Diary p. 66, 1947 edition. Do you think I give that much of a damn about my lousy life? — For myself, I don't give a damn if I get executed, or drown, or crash in a plane, or drink myself to death! — But there is still a matter of honor in this life! — Assassination attempt on Hitler! — Ugh! — Gott im Himmel!! I could have sunk through the floor! And do you think I would have handed Himmler over to the enemy, guilty as he was? Dammit, I would have liquidated the bastard myself! Interview in Göring's cell (3 January 1946) Göring: Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. Gilbert: There is one difference. In a democracy, the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars. Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. In an interview with Gilbert in Göring's jail cell during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (18 April 1946) The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)[ edit ] What do I care about danger?

I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy — why should I be afraid? To Leon Goldensohn (15 March 1946) Hitler decided that. I thought it was stupid because I believed that first we had to defeat England. To Leon Goldensohn, about attacking Russia (15 March 1946) No. It was the last hours and he (Hitler) was under pressure. If I could have seen him personally it would have been different. To Leon Goldensohn, after being asked if he felt any resentment toward Hitler (15 March 1946) I know you want to study me psychologically. That's reasonable and I appreciate it. At least you don't lecture to me and pry into my affairs. You have a good technique as a psychiatrist. Let the other fellow talk and stick his neck into the noose. I don't mean that the way it sounds. But you hardly say anything. Someday I'm going to ask you questions. To Leon Goldensohn (21 May 1946) I have always been interested in family history. Chromosomes are funny things, aren't they?

They may skip a generation and you can find children who resemble the grandfather, rather than either parent. Heredity is more important than environment. Blood will tell. For example, a man is either musical by heredity or he is not. You can't make a man musical by the environment. You can find a person who is very musically inclined and be puzzled because neither parents nor grandparents had any ear for music. But if you trace it back, you will find that the great-grandfather was a musician. But the environment plays a great part in the development of a man. It is significant whether a man is brought up in the city or in the country, near a lake or on the shores of the ocean. To Leon Goldensohn (21 May 1946) In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power. To Leon Goldensohn (21 May 1946) Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything.

Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia — each one he could have conquered individually — these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical. To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946) To me there are two Hitlers: one who existed until the end of the French war; the other begins with the Russian campaign. In the beginning he was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. The important thing to remember is that the first Hitler, the man who I knew until the end of the French war, had much charm and goodwill. He was always frank. The second Hitler, who existed from the beginning of the Russian campaign until his suicide, was always suspicious, easily upset, and tense. He was distrustful to an extreme degree. To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946) I am a man who is basically opposed to atrocities or ungentlemanly actions. In 1934, I promulgated a law against vivisection.

You can see, therefore, that if I disapprove of the experimentation on animals, how could I possibly be in favor of torturing humans? The prosecution says that I had something to do with the freezing experiments which were performed in the concentration camps under the auspices of the air force. That is pure nonsense! I was much too busy to know about these medical experiments, and if anybody had asked me, I would have disapproved violently. It must have been Himmler who thought up these stupid experiments, although I think he shirked his responsibility by committing suicide. I am not too unhappy about it because I would not particularly enjoy sitting on the same bench with him. The same is true of that drunken Robert Ley, who did us a favor by hanging himself before the trial started. He was not going to be any advantage for us defendants when he took the stand. To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946) The atrocities are, for me, the most horrible part of the accusation in this trial. They thought that I took it lightly or laughed about it or some such nonsense, in court. That is definitely a mistake.

I am the type of person who is naturally against such things and my own psychological reaction is to laugh or smile in the face of adversity. Perhaps that explains my attitude in court. Besides, I was not to blame for these horrors. It's not just that I am a hard man because of my long experience in the army and in politics. It's true that I saw plenty in the First World War and during the air raids and at the front in this war. But I was always a person who felt the suffering of others. To paint me as an unfeeling ogre who laughs in court at the atrocities is stupid. To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946) All nonsense. Nobody knows the real Göring. I am a man of many parts, but the autobiography, what does that tell you? Nothing. And those books put out by the party press, they are less than useless. To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946) I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946) If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now? To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946) In the first place I'm sure Hitler did not write that damned testament himself. Probably some swine like Bormann wrote it for him. But I don't see what is so terrible in the testament when you examine it, anyway. There was Berlin, bombed every minute. The noise of artillery from the lousy Russians, the American and British bombers overhead. Maybe Hitler was a trifle unbalanced by all that. If he wrote the testament at such a time, it was hysteria. But essentially, what difference does it make? To Leon Goldensohn (27 May 1946) I have to laugh when the English claim they are such a wonderful nation. Everyone knows that Englishmen are really Germans, that the English kings were German, and that in Russia the emperors were either of German origin or received their education in Germany. To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946) The Russians are primitive folk.

Besides, Bolshevism is something that stifles individualism and which is against my inner nature. Bolshevism is worse than National Socialism — in fact, it can't be compared to it. Bolshevism is against private property, and I am all in favor of private property. Bolshevism is barbaric and crude, and I am fully convinced that that atrocities committed by the Nazis, which incidentally I knew nothing about, were not nearly as great or as cruel as those committed by the Communists. I hate the Communists bitterly because I hate the system. The delusion that all men are equal is ridiculous. I feel that I am superior to most Russians, not only because I am a German but because my cultural and family background are superior. How ironic it is that crude Russian peasants who wear the uniforms of generals now sit in judgment on me. No matter how educated a Russian might be, he is still a barbaric Asiatic. Secondly, the Russian generals and the Russian government planned a war against Germany because we represented a threat to them ideologically. In the German state, I was the chief opponent of Communism.

I admit freely and proudly that it was I who created the first concentration camps in order to put Communists in them. Did I ever tell you that funny story about how I sent to Spain a ship containing mainly bricks and stones, under which I put a single layer of ammunition which had been ordered by the Red government in Spain? The purpose of that ship was to supply the waning Red government with munitions. That was a good practical joke and I am proud of it because I wanted with all my heart to see Russian Communism in Spain defeated finally. To Leon Goldensohn (28 May 1946) Misattributed[ edit ] When I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning! Variant: "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver." Often attributed to Göring, who might have used such lines, these statements are derived from those in the play Schlageter by Hanns Johst : "Wenn ich Kultur höre … entsichere ich meinen Browning!" [Whenever I hear of culture... I release the safety-catch of my Browning!] (Act 1, Scene 1) The play was first performed in April 1933 for Hitler's birthday.

Reported as a misattribution in Paul F. Boller, Jr., and John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, & Misleading Attributions (1989), p. 36. "When I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver" was also is used in the 1981 Cannes Film Festival Award winner Mephisto spoken by a character known as "The General" in the English dubbed version. I will decide who is a Jew! Göring is stated to have said this in Non-Germans Under the Third Reich: The Nazi Judicial and Administrative System in Germany (2003) by Diemut Majer, p. 60, and in other works, but he might have merely been repeating or paraphrasing the statement, Wer a Jud is, bestimm i (Only I will decide who is a Jew) which in Strangers at Home and Abroad: Recollections of Austrian Jews Who Escaped Hitler (2000) by Adi Wimmer, p. 6, is said to have originated with Vienna mayor Karl Lueger in response to the observation that despite his anti-semitic speeches he still dined with Jews.

In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked. This comment has been reported to have been said by Goering in 1943, and was displayed for a time on the English-language page of the De Havilland Mosquito on Wikipedia. It was removed from the Wikipedia page, however, when it was found there was no definite source to confirm Goering had ever said this about the Mosquito. Quotes about Göring[ edit ] When we put all their stories together, the impression which emerges of the Third Reich, which was to last a thousand years, is ludicrous .

… It is a temptation to ponder the wondrous workings of a fate which has left only the guilty dead and only the innocent alive . It is almost too remarkable. … It was these dead men whom these living chose to be their partners … and the crimes that they did together they must pay for one by one. Goering, wreathed in smiles and orders and decorations received us gaily, his wife at his side. There is something un-Christian about Goering, a strong pagan streak, a touch of the arena, though perhaps, like many who are libidinous-minded like myself, he actually does very little. People say that he can be very hard and ruthless, as are all Nazis when occasion demands, but outwardly he seems all vanity and childish love of display. Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. ... by Hermann Goering Please sign-up for my Free Inspirational Daily Email on the form below. Sign-up for your free subscription to my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email. Your E-Mail Address: Your Name: To confirm your subscription, you must click on a link in the email being sent to you. Each email contains an unsubscribe link.

We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. - Hermann Goering Shoot first and ask questions later, and don't worry, no matter what happens, I will protect you. - Hermann Goering Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? - Hermann Goering Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

- Hermann Goering In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield. - Douglas MacArthur A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli. The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough. - Sarah Brady We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction. - Andrew Niccol I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me. - Shane West But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

- John James Audubon Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old. - Nikki Sixx My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. - Orson Scott Card All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns. - Cesar Romero I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off. - Roger Moore I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns. - Kid Rock It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent. If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter. - Joseph Goebbels Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.

- Howard Metzenbaum You have to stick to your guns. - Arthur Cohn To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. - Franz Grillparzer Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin. - Michael Bloomberg I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. - Bernardo Bertolucci But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. - Ryan Phillippe The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door. - Martin McGuinness In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it. - Shelley Duvall Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere. They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

- Kanye West We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return. - Chief Joseph We must get rid of all the guns. - Sarah Brady The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. - Huey Newton There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. - James Q. Wilson Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. - Edward Abbey A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not. - Franklin P. Jones Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns. - Carl Levin Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. - John W.

Hinckley, Jr. I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks. - Jeri Ryan Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with. - Ernie Pyle We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns. - Joseph Goebbels Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life. - Rob Reiner I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists. - Jimmy Fallon We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task. - Theodore Bikel I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns.

I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself. - Richard H. Davis The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns. - Harold Pinter In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some. It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns. - Ryan Reynolds I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns. Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" - George Will A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. - Mario Puzo Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. - Frederick The Great It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived. - Harper Lee In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever. - Simon Pegg I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils. - Michael Reagan We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead. - Chief Joseph I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns. - Dennis Rodman Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. - Stokely Carmichael That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government. - Lyn Nofziger I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military.

I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state. - Michael Dukakis Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. - Loretta Lynn If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns. - Arthur Boyd Thank you for visiting these Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. ... by Hermann Goering. Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email. May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. ... by Hermann Goering Please sign-up for my Free Inspirational Daily Email on the form below. Sign-up for your free subscription to my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email. Your E-Mail Address: Your Name: To confirm your subscription, you must click on a link in the email being sent to you. Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. Would you rather have butter or guns ? Preparedness makes us powerful.

Butter merely makes us fat. - Hermann Goering Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? - Hermann Goering I herewith commission you to carry out all preparations with regard to... a total solution of the Jewish question in those territories of Europe which are under German influence. - Hermann Goering Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country. - Hermann Goering In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

- Douglas MacArthur A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. - Mario Puzo Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough. - Sarah Brady It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns. - Ryan Reynolds I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils. - Michael Reagan The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure. - Lyndon B. Johnson Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me. - Loretta Lynn Guns are neat little things, aren't they? They can kill extraordinary people with very little effort. - John W. Hinckley, Jr. I always believed it would happen and stuck to my guns.

- Kid Rock Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin. - Michael Bloomberg Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. - Heinrich Himmler On one hand, as a filmmaker, I don't want to make a movie with guns everywhere. A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. - Mario Puzo Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them. - Stokely Carmichael In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some. We hear so much about weapons of mass destruction. But nine out of 10 war victims are killed by guns. It's the AK-47 that's a weapon of mass destruction. - Andrew Niccol No, we're not looking at how to control criminals...

we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns. - Howard Metzenbaum You have to stick to your guns. - Arthur Cohn I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself. - Richard H. Davis I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off. - Roger Moore In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever. - Simon Pegg Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives. Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. - David Seabury There is no way the American public will sit still for the banning of or putting any significant restrictions on the kinds of guns they want. - James Q. Wilson They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

- Kanye West I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. - Bernardo Bertolucci The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. - Huey Newton I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me. - Shane West We must get rid of all the guns. - Sarah Brady It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists. - Jimmy Fallon But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns. - Ryan Phillippe In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below. - John McCrae People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government. - Cal Thomas We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.

- Theodore Bikel My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer. - Orson Scott Card If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter. - Joseph Goebbels To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet. - Franz Grillparzer The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door. - Martin McGuinness But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. - John James Audubon Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe. - Dianne Feinstein All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns. - Cesar Romero The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition. Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

- Carl Levin There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court. - Patty Hearst Elevate those guns a little lower. - Andrew Jackson Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable. The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country. - Gary Johnson The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification. - Greg Ginn I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns. - Dennis Rodman We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? - Joseph Stalin I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

- Michael Dukakis I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns. I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks. - Jeri Ryan Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door. If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns. - Arthur Boyd Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. - Edward Abbey We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. - Gloria Estefan A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not. - Franklin P. Jones Something is wrong here, and it's more than easy access to guns or violence on TV. It's about lack of love and attachment to loving people early in life. - Rob Reiner That guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

- Lyn Nofziger Thank you for visiting: Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. ... by Hermann Goering. Please sign up on the form below to receive my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email. May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. - Hermann Goering at Lifehack Quotes Read more quotes by Hermann Goering × Customize & Share You can add your own message to the quote and share it with your friends! It's fast and easy. Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. - Hermann Goering - BrainyQuote Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. Find on Amazon: Hermann Goering Cite this Page: Citation Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. Died: October 15, 1946 (aged 53) Nationality: German Occupation: Criminal Bio: Hermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and leading member of the Nazi Party.

A veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, he was a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as the Blue Max. He was the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1, the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. -Goering, Hermann | Dictionary of Quotes Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. -Goering, Hermann Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. -Goering, Hermann Guns will make us powerful; butter will only make us fat. -Goering, Hermann Quotes : Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things… Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. -Marcia Wieder "Naturally the common people don’t want war;… "Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood.

But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or… Hesse, Hermann Tema: VontadePara que resulte o possível deve ser tentado o impossível Hesse, Hermann Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat. Died: October 15, 1946 (aged 53) Nationality: German Occupation: Criminal Bio: Hermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and leading member of the Nazi Party. A veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, he was a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as the Blue Max. He was the last commander of Jagdgeschwader 1, the fighter wing once led by Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron.

Question: Who said guns will make us powerful but butter will make us fat?
Answer: HERMAN GOERING